Someone made a ChatGPT-powered bot that says 'dumb things that are somewhat funny' to waste telemarketers' time
We all receive them, sometimes dozens of spam calls a week from telemarketers and fraudsters selling extended vehicle warranties, vacations, tax relief, and more. Their sole purpose is to trick you out of your hard-earned money. However, if you've ever wanted to give scammers a taste of their own medicine, Roger Anderson has created a service that routes the spam call to a chatbot that «keeps them from pestering other innocent people.»
Anderson hails from California and offers a service called Jolly Roger. The service utilizes digital personalities to engage in nonsensical conversations and waste the time of unwanted phone solicitors, who often call under false pretenses to extract personal information, potentially leading to identity theft.
The best part? You can opt to keep a recording of each of these calls so you can play them back for your amusement.
Jolly Roger takes whatever the telemarketer says and feeds it into OpenAI's GPT-4, generating a response that is then processed by an AI voice cloner, continuing the conversation from there. When asked why he uses GPT-4, Anderson stated that the chatbot «does a pretty good job of saying dumb things that are somewhat funny.» He charges $25 annually for the service, specifically designed to keep telemarketers and phone scammers on the line for as long as possible, wasting their time. Anderson has even shared clips of conversations where his Jolly Roger bot spoke for as long as 15 minutes (using IBM Watson AI) with someone trying to sell a cruise.
One of the personalities available is Whitebeard, whose voice is cloned from a dairy farmer friend of Anderson's. Whitebeard skillfully talks the caller in circles, frustrating them into hanging up. There are several other
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